Workers at Volkswagen’s plants in Germany are preparing to strike within weeks, as executives at Europe’s largest carmaker rejected their demand to rule out factory closures in the country.
“We will prepare for an escalation from the start of December,” IG Metall’s chief negotiator Thorsten Gröger said late on Thursday, at the end of labour talks that lasted more than six hours.
VW’s plans to close three German plants, eliminate tens of thousands of jobs and cut the pay of remaining workers by 10 per cent have come up against fierce resistance from the carmaker’s powerful works council and union.
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